Busy Week
Posted by sarahafterdiagnosis on September 26, 2005
It’s been a busy week!
Last Thursday afternoon, Nancy and I took the boys over to the University of Mississippi campus, where they were holding a CARE (Cancer Awareness, Research, and Eradication) fundraising walk. The boys wore their pink ribbon onesies and Nancy and I had on our pink tee-shirts, and it was a lovely day. There were tons of people walking and it seems as if most of them thought the boys were the cutest things ever (is anyone surprised?).
Unfortunately, it was quite a long walk, and I just wasn’t up to it. I think we made it about half a mile (out of a two-mile walk, I believe) before we gave up and took a shortcut to the finish line. I was pretty disappointed that I couldn’t do the walk, but it made me realize that–while I’m done with my cancer treatments–I don’t have my strength back, and it’s going to take a while to get back. This means I probably won’t be able to do the Memphis (or Tupelo) Race for the Cures in October as I’d hoped to. Grrrr!
Monday afternoon, I met with my plastic surgeon in Jackson to officially move things into the Reconstruction Phase. It looks as if the final surgery will be pretty easy, but because they’ll be removing my port at the same time, I will probably have one overnight in the hospital. I’m waiting to hear back about a surgery date; hopefully it’ll be in October, but because of the difficulties of scheduling two surgeons (the plastic surgeon and the surgeon who did the bilateral, to remove the port), it could be early November. I should know by the end of this week.
Finally, next Monday will be the first time since last April that I’ll be taking care of the boys on my own. We’re so very sad to see Nancy and Rebecca go, but it’s not as if they’re moving across the country, so we will still see them! Just not every day. It’s been wonderful having them, and we are so grateful that we were able to have their help.
